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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-06-23
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

AT Butler, Mo, Tuesday, Wesley and
Elmer Fisher attempted to cross bridge
on u traction engine The structure gave
away and Wesley was drowned.
A TRAIN on the Saginaw Valley and St.
Louis Road was derailed late Thursday
night, and Charles Weidman, engineer,
Merit Corbett and George Sanfore, fire
men, were severely injured.
WARREN SHERMAN, an old man living
at Oneida, New York, patented an auto
matte railroad signal, and had just secur-
ed its adoption by the New York Central
when he was run over and decapitated by
one of the comPany's trains at Utica.
TuE loss by the destruction of the Have
meyer sugar refinery at Green Point,
Long island, is estimated at SlOO0,Ooo.
One employe is missing, and is supposed
TO have persisted in the flames.
While a number of men we're examin-
Hg charge which failed in RAIN
Kauffman's stone-quarry, near Leesport,
Pa, it exploded with great force, fatally
injuriag Francis Z. KauL man and Philip
Schaeffer, and severely iniuring three
others.
WIn1E driving wagon loaded With
nitro-glyceriue cans near Clean, New
York, Tuesday the cans exploded with
terrible force, instantly killing Hem Hart
whose mangled remains were found many
yards away The wagon was blown to
spliuters, the horses hardly mGngled,
fences, etc, demolished.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-06-23
WASHINGTON.

The president has bucAIed down to
work at the white house after his outing
in the Adriondacks.
THE total circulation coin and curren-
cy--of the United States, May 3l,1887, was
$l,297 $50, an increase eff $5S,66G $40 as
compared with the circulation May 81,
1856.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has recinded the
order for the return of the rebel flags.
He expresses doubts OF its legality, and
intimates that if such plan is carried
out in future it can only be done by the
direction of Congress.
The prominent railway lawyers who are
here say that the decision of Interstate
Commission in regard to the long and
short haul eyades the issue. An appeal
to the courts is as open as TO the new
tribunal. In lodging it's own dilemma
the commission has not wholly relieved
the railroads,
DISPATCH from Petersburg, Va, says:
Senator Malone is engaged in writing
out his plans for settlement of the State
debt, which he thinks will prove salts
factory to its foreign bondholders. The
document, it is said, will be very lengthy,
and when finished will be painted in pam
pallet form and distributed throughout
the state
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-06-23
FOREIGN.

NJ. BATTLE, prominent lawyer ana
politician of France, is dead,
NJ. NIrRY, opportunist, has been elected
10 fill vacancy in French chamber from
the department of Haute-Morne.
Ev1cr1oNs have been resumed at Bodyke
Ireland. The sheriff and his posse are
under protection of a force of six hun.
dred soldiers and policemen.
THE Russian government has pohibit-
ed Chinese and Coreaus from settling IN
the Russian territory contiguous to their
countries.
BlsMARK' IS condition has become worse.
lie is afflicted with rheumatic pains which
presvut sleep. His doctors advise rest
and change of climate. His Illness, how
ever, prevents travelling at present
REsr1cs, the new premier of Servia, is
man of strong Russian sympathies.
His elevation is considered a check to
Austria and guin for Russia in the Bal
kans
THEHr has been great eoutagration
in Botuschany Roumania, a city Of $4,000
inhabitants. Eight hundred houses were
DESTROYED and seven persons were killed.
REroRrs prevail 30 Ottawa. Ontario,
4
had threatened to resign if Parliament
adopted the resolution in favor of total
abstinence. The eloseness of the vote
has rendered the Prohibiuonists iubi-
liant.
Switzerland hes voted two TO one g
place the manufacture and sale Of spirit
uous liquors solely within the hands OF
the government, making it an exclusive
government monopoly. The popular vote
was 80 ,oo0 in favor to 1917 600 opposed.
THr great work Of coerciug the people
Of Asace Lorraine into loyalty goe'
bravely or man has just been arres.
cd at Metz for selling pipes bearing
carved head Of General Boulanger, and !
Freuchman who was visiting = frient
in Alsaee has been expelled from tn
province.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-06-23
What the Fingers Testify.

White hands with rosy palms, beloved
of our grandmothers, have gone out of
fashion.
Tho American hand Is smaller than the
English hand, but the nails are not as
handsome
1t is said that people with Imagination
are apt TO have long, taper fingers and
beautiful inger-nails.
The good-natured critics are said to
possess small, well-shaped nails, and
their handwriting is somewhat angular.
The American nail suffers from the
dryness of our climate, as a foreign pic
ture painted on panel suffers from the
same cause.
Diplomacy has a long, supple hand
and beautifully kept fnger-nail. The
handwriting of a diplomatist looks like a
snake crawling away.
An aptitude for criticism is shown
among people who bite their nails. These
people are cynical and severe, unchaIita-
BILE and bitter; they write small, cramp-
ed, illegible hand.
The Chinese have finger nails so long
that they could write with them. The
tenacity of the Chinese nail, which does
not easily break, would indicate that they
have more lime i'll their bones than we
have.
The English nails are almost univer.
sally rosy and shell.like, and, cut to a
rounded, slightly tapering point, kept al
ways scrupulously clean. The skin at the
base is pushed bach to show the onyx, a
little white half moon.
The ONYX of the finger nails is careful
~ cultivated and polished by the Creoles
of New Orleans to show that they nave no
black blood in their veins. No matter
how fair the complexion the valuable
sign of pure blood is wanting TO the
octoroon if the onyx is clouded.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-06-23

dry months during our treasherous sum-
mers.
1t is not, as some may suppose, very
difficult matter to have supply of green
fodder to meet drouth coming at any
time in the summer. Winter rye can be
grown for early feed, and if not needed,
can be, allowed to ripen and be harvest
ed for the grain. Green clover also grows
large quantities of feed in early summer.
Sweet corn comes soon after, and furnish
es most excellent green fodder, which can
be fed out green, or if not needed, can be
cut up and stacked for dry fodder. Com
mon field corn-that is, our home grown
Dent varieties-makes excellent green
fodder, if cut when the ear is filling and
maturing. Hungarian can be grown so
as to come in midsummer, or later, and
for short time furnishes excellent green
food in large quantities; but its time is
short, as it soon becomes mature enough
to cut for hay. Some such variety of
crops can be grown, and only enough
used green to hold the pastures up in
good shape. No crop need be planted
that will not make good hay or dry fodder,
or silage, if a silo is in use.
If drouth comes it pays to begin feed
ing the green crops in time, and not
wit until stock are starved out. Any of
these crops are cheap food compared
with the dry foods fed in winter. In
summer stock grow rapidly at little ex-
pense, and it certainly pays to keep the
growth continuous, partly for the increase
while feeding green fodder, and partly
for the better condition stock are in when
fall pastures revive, Particularly is this
true with COWS in milk, since the flow if
once lessened is not easily brought up to
its normal quantity. Selling is thought
by many as worth the consideration of no
one except the dairyman. Stock cattle,
young horses, sheep and hogs make profit
able use of green food in summer, and if
it can not be supplied by pastures it should
by cutting green field-crops.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-06-23
FIRES AND CASUALTIES
Fourteen Fires in Chicago p,;,
From Various Causes Losses ;n,
An ohio Train Falls Through a Tr.,t
Fatally IDjuring Four Men
Steamer Champaign DESTROYED br N
on lake Michigan-Many Lives H..
a Great Day for Fires in chIea,o

CHICAGO, June 17.-Up to l1.40 to,;,
there has been IA separate fires in AZ
cago since sun rise. Two were IN
lumber district during the afternoos
for time threatened great destrno,;-
There was no evidence of incendi..'-
and the blazes were attributed ~
overwhelming of the lumber IL
dry kilns. The losses by these Ma
amount TO about $4,000, well in,r,S
Most of the other fires were extinop;ss.
With triiling loss, and arose from
variety of causes. About dusk a,-
broke ont in Crane Brothers forrs,-
but were subdued with III
of $4,000. A dense crowd conpre,s.s
at this fire and the sidewalk on -
street gave way beneath them. 4 MN
Der of people received bad bruise, Az
cuts, nobody being fatally injured.
CHICAGO, June IA dangerop, 8.
started in the lumber district, to Whit
twenty six engines were summoned. M
afternoon. The FIRE caused consjde,sp'
excitement as ii occurred in such a.,
gerous district and it was thought 10 n
beyond the control of the fire dens,,
ment. The fire spread steadily ana /
strong breeze sprung up from the so-
which seemed to threaten destruction 4
the fire lumber district BY 5 o'cor
the entire was gotten under control n
caused loss of not more than tvmr!
thousand dollars.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-06-23
CRIME.

DEsPERADo known as "Dago Joe" was
taken from the officers asd Iynched by a
mot near Austin, Mississippi.
Two keepers" in the New York CITY
insane asylum on Wards island, named
Ntzhugh, and Cleary, have been arrested
on the charge of causing. the death OF
george Parrish, lunatic, by brutal treat
ment.
WILLIAM NJ. MALoNEY, ex-reading clerk
OF the Doodle board of aldermen at New
York, will return from Canada to that
city TO testify against Jake" Sharp, un-
der a promise of immunity from the
states attorney.
A DISCREPANCY has been discovered in
the accounts of Treasurer Pascoe, If the
International Typographical Union, the
extent of which is not stated. Mr. Pascoe
has resigned" the treasurership, and a
successor has been elected.
JOSEPH HUDERLE, formerly a school
teacher of Shelby county, Ohio, is charge
with the ruin of twenty or thirty little
girls who we're ander his care, has been
arrested at Toledo.
f. H. Willis, the Warren, d. L. gner
chant who assigned recently, was bound
over to await tho action of the Grand
Jury, charge of obtaining money by
false Pretences having been brought
against him by Jewett Bros.
G. WILSON and James Read, residing
near Faulkton, ID. L. became involved in
dispute this morning, the result of which
WIS that Reed was shot through tho alb
domen, and died q few hours later. A
personal fued of long standing was the
cause. Wilson il now in Jail at Faulkton.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-06-23
THE PRESIDENT EXPLAINS
He Writes Letter to the Secretary of
War Regarding the DISPOSE
ton Of Rebel Flags.
After Due Consideration Of the Matter
He Thinks 1t Best not to Re-
turn Them.
THE REBEL FLAGS.
President Cleyeland's Letter to Secretary En-
dieOtt.

President CleYeland's Letter to Secretary En-
dieOtt.
WASHINGTON, June 16.-The following
letter was sent TO the secretary of war by
the president to-day, in regard to the dis
position of the flags captured during the
war; l have to day considered with more
care than when the subject was orally
presented to me, The action of your de-
partment in directing letters to be ad-
dressed to the governors of all the states
Offering to return if desired, TO loyal
states union flags captured during the
war of the rebellion by the confederate
forces and afterwards recovered by gov
eminent troops, and to confederate
states flags captured by the union
forces all of which for many years
have been packed in boxes and
stored in the celler and attic of the
war department. l am of the opin
ion that the return of the flags in the
manner thus contemplated is not author
lied by existing law, nor justified as an
executive act. [ request therefore that
20 further steps be taken in the matter
except to examine and inventory these
flags and adopt proper measures FOR their
preservation. Any directions rs to the
hnal disposition of them should origin.
ate with congress.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-06-23

MISNEAPoLIs, June 17-Specials TO 'as
Evening Journal just received show tie
devastation az Grand Forks by yester
days cyclcne to be fully as bad as rePo''
ed. Five persons were killed outris-'
and seventeen badly injured and bun
bred more or less hurt. Twen'y-sev'h
buildings are totally wrecked and man!
others damaged. Near Fisher folL
county, Mrs. Falonski was killed BY :
falling barn, and her son II years oa
badly injured, he died in the morning
The house on the keyst farm was bloSa
down and Mr.. and Mrs Anderson suI''
and seven men injured.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-06-23
THE LATEST TELEGRAMS.
GENERAL NOTES.

FROM a numbered stations in Northern
Iowa, Southern Minnesota and Dakota
come reports showing the corn to be 20
per cent ahead of last year.
ExSEoRETARY CHANDLER was Tuesday
elected United States Senator by the New
Hampshire Legislature.
THE PAGER Richball (2:1215) was de-
feated at freeport, ILL.,, Friday, by Tom
my Lynn in straight heats, the best time
being 2;2012.
JUpGE LAwREScE, of the Supreme Court
of New York, decided Friday that hotel
keepers could not sell liquor to their
guests with meals on Sunday.
THE strike of the coke-workers in Penn
men. Operations iii all the works will be
resumed at once.
The citizens OF Huntington, Md, say
Mrs b. f. Howe, of that town, owes her
recovery from thirty months attack of
nervous prostratioA, to the faith cure.
The President and Mrs. Cleveland cele
brated the first anniversary of their wed
ding by gong fishing on Saranac lake
They will spend several days at Albany
on their return to Washington, the guests
of Governor Hill.
The contest over the Dixon will at
Atlanta, Georgia, has resulted in the will
being sustained by the supreme court.
The will gives 100000 to the negro con-
cubine of the testator, which, it is assert
ed, makes her the wealthiest colored
woman in the world
OK the ore docks OF the New York,
Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad at Cieve-
land, Tuesday a serious riot occurred, in
which Eegr9 workmen and the strikers
engaged. Many were injured on both
sides.
A LARGE increase in the duty ON Ameri-
can lard is about 70 be made in Italy as a
protective measure A recent analysis
made in that country is said to have
shown that American lard contains IL to
Is per cent. of water.
THE great coke strike in Pennsylvania
practically ended Thursday when the
hungarian strikers returned to work at
the old schedule of wages There are
1000 foreigners in the coke regions, and
they say they will return to work when
the opportunity offers.
THE New York regatta sailed Saturday
to fine sailing breeze. The Atlantic
again led the entire feet throughout,
beating the Priscilla over a thirty-Dine.
mile course minutes and 80 seconds,
and the Galatea minutes and 3S seconds
In the other classes the winners were the
Titania, Magic, Cinderella, Rival, and
Mariola
THE collapse Tuesday, in Chicago of
the deal lately being run in wheat was
naturally accompanied by will excitement
in board of trade circles, suspension of
three commission houses, one clique
houses, n severe depression in the
market, in June option-the cornered
month--the days decline was 7ll9 cents,
in July 8 and five-eight cents, and In
August 2 ) cents. For June the last
quotation was 744 cents,for July 781a
cents, and for August 1854 cents. Spec
ualative operations we're estimated at mp
ward of 100000 bushels.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-06-23
The Gentleman And the Tiger

The son of a well known New lo.l'
left the city last summer to maA'
home with an uncle who had grown ~ n.
in the Orient. Several months ago
family received a letter from tas W..
saying that his nephew was dead anu III T..
the body had been embalmed ana M
home by a sailing ship. Last W. .,r.
vessel arrived here and the young ~ -,-,
parents, attired in deep mournihs, .r..r
to receive the remains a peeo'. ~
shaped box was delivered to men .s.,.
was removed TO their home. When IT. --..
taker opened the chest to give the pa h
a last look at the body it was ioll' mr.
contain large Bengal tiger ll.o.ss,
prised father at once cabled 70 ni' ~ .'.,..
in India: "Some mistake u5'i ssr-
body no. arrived. Coffin contaiheo e..
gal tiger" Last night this ansT' IA
received; mo mistakei George =
tiger.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-06-23
A LAKE DISASTER
:; Steamer With Thirty or Forty Peraa
Aboard Burned bya Lamp Explosion

Aboard Burned bya Lamp Explosion
CHARLEvoIx, Mich, June l7.-TnI
steamer Champlain, having on board
thirty or forty persons, composed of pas
sengers and crew, burned this morning
at l O'Clock, six miles out from here. Ths
fire started in the fireman's room from !
lamp explosion. So rapidly die he
flames spread that the steamer had to 5s
abandoned in ten minutes, and beion
the boats could be lowered. Fifteen to
twenty liver are known to have been lost.
Twelve bodies have already been reoov-
cred all but five of which have been idsl
tilted Nine persons were picked up ai
ter having been in the water two hours.
The Champlain left Chicago last Tues
day, with full load of freight and 80
average number OF passengers, aud Wa
bound for Cheboygan, Charleyoix is atihs
upper end oflake Michigan about 60mIs
south of Nackinaw straits. The Cham
plain is owned by Peter j. Klein, of vii
waukee, and was valued at about $3.50
She was an No. l vessel in good CO..
dition, and was regarded as among III
best vessels on the lake.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-06-23
A Seventy Pound Salmon.


Mr.. Henry Pfennel writes: "a CORES
pondent of The Times mentions having
seen a salmon of seventy pounds in. Groves
shop in Bond street The fish in question
although Tabled a seventy FOUNDER, scaled
something under that weight. had an
opportunity Of seeing the telegram an
nouncing the capture of the salmon in
question, in which il is stated that the
fish, when captured weighed nearly
seventy pounds tits important when
recording the capture Of monstrous
salmon to get at the exact weight if pos
sible, and il mistakes in weight are not
corrected Immediately they are made, false
records are apt to be handed down. The
salmon which was at Groves the other
day was taken in the Tay, and was GER
taiuly a.beautiful proportional fish, but it
was not up to seventy pounds in weight.
In the Bucklane museum at South
kensington there is a cast Of a salmon OF
sew enty-two, which was also taken in the
lay. / myself saw the fish weighed and
was present when the late Mr.. Frank
Backland made the east
DIR. George I'll. Mlliott, OF Denver, who
recently closed a big cattle deal in New
York, is curious character He went to
New York in the garb of a cowboy lnd put
up a. the St, James Hotel. His polished
manner was so much at variance with his
attire that he attracted great attention,
and be soon had q very large acquaintance
about town. Instead of going 20 Wall
street ne lounged about the public places
uptown and disposed Of several hundred
thousand dollars worth of his stock to
men whom he met BY mere chance.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-06-23
Diamond Ink
american Drug gists.


The preparation for writing on glass,
called diamond ink" is to be ssed with a
common pen, and at once etches rough
surface on the parts of glass it comes in
contact with. 1t proves to be very use
full article for labelling bottles which are
to contain liquids that will destroy com
mon labels. Az the request of Professor
Maisch an analysis was made, which pro
we'd it to be prepared ammonium nuoaide
barium sulphate and sulphuric acid. The
barium sulphate seems to act as an alb
sorbing medium, and when the semi
fluid mass is used it makes white mark
and prevents the spreading of the watery
liquid; it also seems to make the acid
etch a rougher surface. 1t is made by
mixing barium sui phate three parts, am
monium houride one part and sulphuric
acid alquantity sufficient for decompos-
ing the ammonium fouride and making
the mixture of SEMI fluid consistency.
The sample examined was contained in a
glass bottle holding nearly two fluid dram
and which was thickly coated on the out
side with asphaltun, on the snside wit h
a thick stratum of bees wax and was stop
pered with,a rubber stopper. 1t is clai
med by the manufacturer that the mix
tEre contains no hydrofouric acid and
does not corrode pen; but of course II
does corrode pen, and hydroAuorio acid
is the one thing that does the etching.
Any one making this mixture and wish
ing to keep it in glass must coat the
bottle inside with parafne, beeswax or
rubber. 1t should be prepared in a lead
en- dish and is preferably kept in a gutta
percha or leaden bottle.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-06-23

CRAWFORD COUNTY il getting up boom
over discoveries of gold and silver along
the east side of the Kickapoo river. Gold
and silver mining has actually begun mp
in Pierce county. Lead aud link mining
is unusually prosperous in Grant, Iowa
and La Fayette countless All the north
ern counties are in the il1u mining bust.
ness. when the Naukesha diamond
mines start up again the mining indus
tries Of Wisconsin will be complete
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-06-23
Bald Knobbers Threaten vengeance

JEFFERSON Cry, Mo, June l1-A ~
days session of the Legislature rema'Al.
BILE communication addressed to the nous
was read in that body. 1t was slglsl Z,
B. f. Plummer, chief of the Bald hl'y
bers," vigilant organization existing Z
the southern part of the state. Inc ~
tice announced that unless the extra 'g
sion EFF the legislature adiourns b! vi
25th inst, the entire army OF b.,
Knobbersn would be summoned 70 'A
band it.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-06-23

By the most trivial causes, weak Ae''', 4, ,as
ily susceptible Of IMMIGRATION, term W..
imports, in this instance, quietuds -. -
have but 70 use IIostetters Stomach D- ,s-.s
tematicaly to overcome that surer,s,st--ss.,-.s,
Of the human seusorium. when is S..,1,.I..g, OF
on bodily comfort and mental t.N1 ~ SIS
The difficulty underlying this, o 1 VIZ Ne
other ailments is imperfect ass3 ,l SsS5 d q
than incomplete digestion OF w sssir st
discharge of both the digestive aul 'rT-fert. q
functions the Bitters are the ~ ,fv ra-
y.4o } an ,i'I re-giarity 6y its aid, th4 i,
nervous system are also benehiel- arsrsr.c 81
jeet 10 the influence Of malaria, "
rheumatic invalids. and persons n.tsrs
are inactive. should, also, use Tue